# Top 15 ESports Angel Investors in Singapore in June 2026

## David Ng
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: eSports, Media and Entertainment, Sports

David Ng is the CEO & Founder of goGame.

## Tom Varkey
- Type: Angel
- Location: Westfield, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Education, E-Learning

Tom is a veteran in financial markets and is Principal at Stonehill Capital. Prior to this he has held positions with Lazard Asset Management & Fidelity Investments focusing on emerging markets and corporate debt.
Tom is an MBA from Harvard Business School & has a MA in Quantitative Economics from Tufts University.

## Shubhrendu Koche
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Sports, eSports

Shubhrendu Koche

## Kenji Narushima
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Apps, Sports, eSports

Kenji Narushima is a Chief Strategy Officer / Chief Of Staff at CARRO

## Poh Kam Wong
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Gaming, Mobile

Poh Kam WONG is a Professor at the Business School of National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Director of NUS Entrepreneurship Centre.  Through the centre, he oversees the university's entrepreneurship education programs, as well as the university's incubator, seed funding programs and mentoring scheme for nurturing spin-offcompanies by the university's professors and students.  He has published extensively in leading academic journals on high tech entrepreneurship and innovation policy in Asia, and has consulted frequently for technology companies in Asia, as well as international organizations such as the World Bank.    He is an active angel investor in technology start-ups in Singapore, Asia and Silicon Valley, and is the founding Chairman of Business Angel Network Southeast Asia (BANSEA) and  chairman and partner of BAF Spectrum Pte Ltd, a business angel fund based in Singapore.   He is the initiator of StartUp@Singapore, the annual national business plan competition in Singapore since 1999.

## Jonathan Shipman
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: eSports, Beauty, Internet

Jonathan Shipman is a VP, Strategy (Product & Marketing) at Lantronix.

## Faisal Nasimuddin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: eSports

Faisal Nasimuddin

## Kin-Wai Lau
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Retail, Fashion, eSports

A well recognised serial tech-entrepreneur in Southeast Asia, Mr Lau founded his first tech company when he was 23. Since then, Mr Lau has took 3 tech companies public .At the start of his career Mr Lau was the co-founder and Managing Director of Viztel Solutions Berhad (Viztel), a telecom and mobile internet software startup that grew into amajor regional player. Mr Lau was, at the time, one of the youngest ever managing directors of a publicly traded company in Malaysia.Mr Lau has also led a group of investors to a successful take-over of the Oriented Media Group Berhad (Omedia), a publicly traded digital media company, of which he was later appointed, Executive Chairman. In 2007, Mr Lau co-founded Cellsafe Biotech Group, a regional biotechnology business group that focuses on non-controversial technologies for harvesting and cryogenic preservation of stem cells. Cellsafe has since become a leading stem cell bank network in Southeast Asia, with operations across four different countries.Mr Lau frequently supports and plays active role in entrepreneurial campaigns in colleges and universities. He is a regular judge at major business plan competitions in Singapore.Mr Lau was a scholar of a Malaysian government-controlled corporation and graduated first class honours in engineering from the University of Manchester, UK. He was also a faculty research staff and PhD candidate at the Imperial College London, UK.

## Michael Broda
- Type: Angel
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: eSports

Michael Broda is the Co-Founder and Board Member at Esports Players League.

## Michael Patent
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: eSports, Media and Entertainment

Michael Patent

## Axel Wehr
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: eSports, Media and Entertainment

Axel Wehr - Partner @ Firestartr

## Rob Gilby
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: eSports, Media and Entertainment

Rob Gilby

## Manit Parikh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangkok, Krung Thep, Thailand
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: B2B, Sports, eSports

Manit Parikh

## Marcus John
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: eSports, Media and Entertainment

Marcus John

## Mayank Parekh
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Financial Services, Apps

Mayank Parekh is based out of Singapore and is the Founding Partner and Investment Committee Chair of M Venture Partners. Mayank previously worked at Grange Partners as a Founder and Managing Partner. Mayank Parekh attended the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
